On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > There was no court case, but VERITAS published a modifed version of gtar where > additional code was added by binary only libraries from VERITAS. The FSF did > never try to discuss this is public even though everybody did know about the > existence. As long as the FSF does not try to sue VERITAS, we are safe - > regardless what intentional nonsense you can read on the FSF webpages. I just remembered a counterpoint to this. Back in the Windows 3.0 days when windows had no tcp networking of its own, I put together a DOS binary built from gnutar and the wattcp stack so you could back up a windows or dos box to a unix system via rsh. And when I tried to give it away I was contacted and told that I couldn't distribute it because even though wattcp was distributed in source, it had other conflicts with the GPL. As a side effect of getting it to build on a DOS compiler, I prototyped the tar code and contributed that and some bugfixes. Someone else's version was accepted instead but at least my name is still in a comment somewhere. Probably the only thing still being distributed... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com